Sino-Japanese War 1. How are the Chinese soldiers portrayed in these prints? The Japanese soldiers? - The Chinese soldiers are portrayed to be small and weak but the Japanese soldiers are portrayed as strong heroes.
2. Look at the weapons used by each side, are they different? How? Does this tell us anything about Japanese technological advancement? -Japanese weapons were mostly westernized weapons such as guns and swords but on the other hand, Chinese used the spears as their weapons. This clearly shows that Japanese were technologically more developed and adapted the western culture faster.
3. Why do sports often become symbolic battlegrounds between nations? - The sports became symbolic battlegrounds between nations because the game requires two or more opposing sides which engages the player and the people of each nations to be unified. Also, the strong sports team symbolizes the nation's power and pride. A symbol around which a people can rally and not feel guilt. That guilt is largely due to the pain of war, sports are different.
4. Is imperialism/colonialism simply about militarily and politically controlling another nation, or is it also about proving one’s self-perceived cultural superiority over another? -No. The imperialism and colonialism is not only about being militarily and politically superior. It's also about being culturally superior than the other nations.Is it not only about being a club member, too? I mean, after taking over Formosa and Korea the Japanese could claim membership to that club which was exclusively European-American.
Russo-Japanese War
1. Do artistic renditions or photographs depict the heroics of war better? -I believe that ehe artistic renditions of the war can be biased and not totally accurate where it can depict the war in a very heroic way or a negative way. The artist who created it can portray the war in his/her opinions. However on the other hand, photographs are real and shows what actually happened during the war which is more accurate.
2. Do artistic renditions or photographs depict the horrors of war better? (Consider all photographs of war that you have seen, both historical and contemporary) -I think artistic renditions can be exaggerated depending on the person who created it, therefore photographs would be more accurate in fact and what actually happened. However, the artistic renditions would depict the horrors of war better because art contains emotion and feelingsof the person who experienced it more than the historically factual things.
3. How does the medium affect the message? Can we say that, "The medium is the message"? -The medium affect the message because the medium contains different kinds interpretations and meaning to each person , therefore the medium can be the message. 4. Why is 1905 such a turning point in Japanese and World history? How might history have been different had Japan lost the Russo-Japanese War?
Queen Min
Questions of Reading #1
1. Who was Queen Min? - She was born on 1851 from a noble family, who got married to Kojong at her age of 14 and became the queen of Choson Dynasty.
2. Why was she chosen to be queen? -she was chosen to be a queen because taewongun , king kojong’s father felt that the young queen would be a compliant wife to his son and pose to threat to his authority. 3. Was this a wise choice? From whose viewpoint? -Yes, from the people’s point of view because she made a lot of accomplishments for the country as the queen.
4. How did she try to maintain Korea's independence? Did she succeed? -She knew about other countries well and she was intelligent in controlling and having a relationship with the other countries. Also, progressive reform (modernization) of the country with management of time.
5. What can her death tell us about the measures imperialists will take to ensure their interests? -The imperialists knew that they could not take over or ensure their interest of Choson until Queen Min was dead and therefore they killed her eventually.
6. Do you admire her? Why or why not? -I do admire her because of her intelligence and courage to protect and in betterment of her own country.
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Sino-Japanese War
1. How are the Chinese soldiers portrayed in these prints? The Japanese soldiers?
- The Chinese soldiers are portrayed to be small and weak but the Japanese soldiers are portrayed as strong heroes.
2. Look at the weapons used by each side, are they different? How? Does this tell us anything about Japanese technological advancement?
-Japanese weapons were mostly westernized weapons such as guns and swords but on the other hand, Chinese used the spears as their weapons. This clearly shows that Japanese were technologically more developed and adapted the western culture faster.
3. Why do sports often become symbolic battlegrounds between nations?
- The sports became symbolic battlegrounds between nations because the game requires two or more opposing sides which engages the player and the people of each nations to be unified. Also, the strong sports team symbolizes the nation's power and pride. A symbol around which a people can rally and not feel guilt. That guilt is largely due to the pain of war, sports are different.
4. Is imperialism/colonialism simply about militarily and politically controlling another nation, or is it also about proving one’s self-perceived cultural superiority over another?
-No. The imperialism and colonialism is not only about being militarily and politically superior. It's also about being culturally superior than the other nations.Is it not only about being a club member, too? I mean, after taking over Formosa and Korea the Japanese could claim membership to that club which was exclusively European-American.
Russo-Japanese War
1. Do artistic renditions or photographs depict the heroics of war better?
-I believe that ehe artistic renditions of the war can be biased and not totally accurate where it can depict the war in a very heroic way or a negative way. The artist who created it can portray the war in his/her opinions. However on the other hand, photographs are real and shows what actually happened during the war which is more accurate.
2. Do artistic renditions or photographs depict the horrors of war better? (Consider all photographs of war that you have seen, both historical and contemporary)
-I think artistic renditions can be exaggerated depending on the person who created it, therefore photographs would be more accurate in fact and what actually happened. However, the artistic renditions would depict the horrors of war better because art contains emotion and feelingsof the person who experienced it more than the historically factual things.
3. How does the medium affect the message? Can we say that, "The medium is the message"?
-The medium affect the message because the medium contains different kinds interpretations and meaning to each person , therefore the medium can be the message.
4. Why is 1905 such a turning point in Japanese and World history? How might history have been different had Japan lost the Russo-Japanese War?
Queen Min
Questions of Reading #1
1. Who was Queen Min?
- She was born on 1851 from a noble family, who got married to Kojong at her age of 14 and became the queen of Choson Dynasty.
2. Why was she chosen to be queen?
-she was chosen to be a queen because taewongun , king kojong’s father felt that the young queen would be a compliant wife to his son and pose to threat to his authority.
3. Was this a wise choice? From whose viewpoint?
-Yes, from the people’s point of view because she made a lot of accomplishments for the country as the queen.
4. How did she try to maintain Korea's independence? Did she succeed?
-She knew about other countries well and she was intelligent in controlling and having a relationship with the other countries.
Also, progressive reform (modernization) of the country with management of time.
5. What can her death tell us about the measures imperialists will take to ensure their
interests?
-The imperialists knew that they could not take over or ensure their interest of Choson until Queen Min was dead and therefore
they killed her eventually.
6. Do you admire her? Why or why not?
-I do admire her because of her intelligence and courage to protect and in betterment of her own country.